A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else, was to be indifferent to that difference. Al Capp
The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. Eric Hoffer
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. Ben Elton
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct – never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike. Lord Chesterfield
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. Frederic Raphael
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Malachy McCourt
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. Neil Kinnock
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. Norman Vincent Peale
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. Catherine Ponder
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. Ann Landers